Washington D.C. – Last year, Trump Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unceremoniously fired all 17 members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), replacing the panel with a cabal of fellow anti-vax extremists who have opposed childhood immunizations, promoted COVID-19 misinformation, and testified in lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers. Today, Kennedy appointed two new committee members, both of whom, unsurprisingly, have a history of espousing views “critical of mainstream vaccine science.” A review from Protect Our Care’s ‘Public Health Watch’ project finds Kennedy’s choice of Kimberly Biss brings even more concerning views and claims beyond the typical unfounded anti-vax skepticism we have come to expect from the Trump administration– including promoting the dubious COVID-19 vaccine shedding myth, suggestions that vaccinated breastfeeding women may cause cancer in their children, and routinely spreading vaccine misinformation on social media. [See background below]
The former ACIP members fired by Kennedy published a letter last year expressing grave concern that RFK Jr.’s handpicked members would “roll back the achievements of US immunization policy” and “impact people’s access to lifesaving vaccines.” They were unfortunately right. Just last month, Kennedy’s conspiracy-driven panel thumbed their noses at decades of peer-reviewed science and data and voted to end the “recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B, a highly infectious virus that leads to chronic liver disease in most infected children” – which Donald Trump and RFK Jr. quickly rubber stamped to the detriment of public health, particularly for vulnerable American children.
“The more RFK Jr. stacks his immunization advisory panel with anti-vaccine activists, the more its recommendations will undermine our public health to advance conspiracy theories and anti-science ideology,” said Kayla Hancock, Director of Public Health Watch, a project of Protect Our Care. “One of Secretary Kennedy’s new ACIP members is perhaps best known for spreading misinformation that the Covid vaccine is somehow magically contagious to unvaccinated women – flying in the face of scientific evidence. It’s clear Secretary Kennedy is only comfortable in an anti-vax echo chamber with as little input as possible from respected medical experts and peer-reviewed data. RFK Jr.’s ACIP panel has already given the Trump administration an excuse to put American kids at risk of fatal liver disease by reversing recommendations on the hepatitis B vaccine despite its proven track record of keeping countless kids out of harm’s way. What deadly preventable disease will be targeted next for a comeback by RFK’s even more unqualified ACIP panel?”
BACKGROUND: RFK JR.’S NEW ACIP PANEL MEMBER KIMBERLY BLISS BRINGS A LONG HISTORY OF DANGEROUS AND UNFOUNDED VIEWS:
Dr. Kimberly Biss Has Made Outlandish and Unfounded Claims About Vaccines, Including Promoting The Debunked Covid-19 Vaccine Shedding Myth
Kimberly Biss Suggested That Those Vaccinated Against COVID-19 Have Been “Shedding”– Impacting The Health Of Those Around Them. “Dr. Biss: Because the spike protein was designed in such a way that our cells can’t degrade this foreign protein down like they normally can with other proteins. It’s very hard to get out of the body. We don’t know how long your body’s going to make it. Fasting may help to get rid of the spike. There are other naturopathic ways and supplements to take that can help your body get rid of the spike. But it’s a problem because there is this shedding, too. We’re constantly around other people that are vaccinated. We’re all getting exposed to spike every day and we all probably need to be on something to get rid of.” [Epoch Times, Epoch TV, 05/21/24]
- Kimberly Biss Claimed That Unvaccinated Women Were Experiencing Changes In Their Menstrual Cycle Just From Having “Been Around Other People Who Have Been Vaccinated.” “Biss, an obstetrician gynecologist, testified that women were especially adversely affected by the vaccines, even if they themselves did not receive it.‘There were definitely changes in women’s menstrual cycles and also in post-menopausal patients,’ Biss said. ‘Not all these women had been vaccinated, but they had been around other people who had been vaccinated, isn’t that interesting?’” [Fox 11 News, 11/13/23]
Kimberly Biss Suggested That Vaccinated Breastfeeding Women May Be Causing Cancer In Their Children
Kimberly Biss Claimed That “We Might Be Seeing A Huge Spike In Cancer In Babies And Kids” Due To The Transmission Of Certain COVID-19 Vaccine mRNA Through Breast Milk. “Dr. Biss: I think it’s both. In the Pfizer trials, they knew that this would be transmitted in liquids. Breast milk is a bodily fluid, very fatty, and actually, babies are keto. These lipid nanoparticles are fats. They found fully intact messenger RNA, so the whole package went through. You brought up the adulterated aspect of this product. If there are DNA plasmids getting into these newborns, who knows? Sadly, we might be seeing a huge spike in cancer in babies and kids. I hope not.” [Epoch Times, Epoch TV, 05/21/24]
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